GARV revolves around the life and times of officers in the Mumbai Police Force, spearheaded by Samar Singh [Amrish Puri], Arjun Ranawat [Salman Khan] and Hyder Ali [Arbaaz Khan].

GARV revolves around the life and times of officers in the Mumbai Police Force. Spearheaded by Samar Singh (Amrish Puri), Arjun Ranawat (Salman Khan) and Hyder Ali (Arbaaz Khan), it also involves their 'Special Task Force Team'.

Arjun and Hyder take the law into their own hands to eliminate the dons who rule the underworld gangs.

This creates panic within the community of people who are connected with these gangs to make easy money. This result in a high tension, action packed drama as they battle for their innocence. Amidst these tensions, the film takes a look at the officer's private lives. Arjun's mother (Farida Jalal) and sister (Akanksha) are targeted by the gangsters. So he takes the law into his own hands.

Garv has all the supplies of ingredients needed to make a perfect pot-boiler now it is for us to see how good is Salman in his new 'avataar' as a angry young cop?

The first half is extremely interesting, never mind the oft-repeated plot. The drama in the first half builds up gradually and thankfully, for a change, the cops in this film are an honest lot. In fact, Puneet Issar gets an extra point for uplifting the image of the cops in his big screen directorial debut.

But the post-interval portions suffer from the scripting point of view. The forced romantic track and the reasons that compel Arjun to go on a rampage in the end glaringly stand out like a sore thumb.

Salman goes through his role routinely with no particular insights. He is just about ok. Shilpa has absolutely nothing to do except appear in some item numbers and some romantic numbers. Arbaaz seems to be giving Salman competition in deadpan expressions. Akanksha is bad. Amrish Puri, Anupam Kher, Govind Namdeo, Mukesh Rishi and a whole lot of others burrow their foreheads and glare at all.

Music is a mixed bag. The two songs that stand out are 'Saiyaan' [Sajid-Wajid] and 'Marhaba' [Anu Malik]. The picturization of 'Marhaba' [on Reshma Bombaywala] should be lapped up by the hoi polloi. 'Dum Mast Mast' [Sajid-Wajid] is imaginatively filmed and tuned, but its placement is improper. In fact, the two songs ['Dum Mast Mast' and 'Hum Tumko Nigahone Mein'] in the second half, although well tuned, should be deleted rightaway since they come as a major hindrance in the narrative.

On the whole, GARV will meet with diverse reactions.